NNN--- An artist's reconstruction of fossils from two caves in southwest China have revealed a previously unknown Stone Age people, who according to scientists, shared their early Asian environment with a more modern-looking people. The fossils are described as the remains of people who had a highly unusual mix of archaic and modern anatomical features. The remains of what the scientists call “red-deer” – because they hunted and cooked extinct red deer – were first found in 1979 near the village of Longlin, China. Skeletal remains of three more of these people were found a decade later, in 1989, at Maludong, or Red Deer Cave, near the city of Mengzi in Yunnan Province. They think these new fossils , between 11,400 and 14,500 years old, might be of a previously unknown species, one that survived until the very end of the Ice Age around 11,000 years ago. Photo courtesy Peter Schouten---NNN
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